“I do not view it from the aspect of entering it into the Eurasian agenda. Simply, any conflict in adjacent regions extends the possibility of the Eurasian Economic Union”, such opinion was expressed by the political scientist Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan, in response to the question of Aravot.am of whether after the tripartite meeting of the presidents in Sochi, when Nazarbayev and Putin had a phone conversation, which was followed by Nazarbayev’s spokesman divulged information that available complexities on NK issue were discussed in Sochi, so whether it means that an attempt is being made to move the Karabakh issue to the European agenda.
He mentioned that one of the problems of protracted crisis in Ukraine is to create a situation under which the Eurasian Union will be suspended. Later, the political scientist added, “If it is possible to create a second of the kind of situation, which can result in protraction of implementation of the Eurasian Union, then why not? But not by Russia and Kazakhstan. Nazarbayev will try using any problem related to the Russian world to raise its reputation and enhance its influence. We need to find the counterinfluence to it so that it would not obstacle our state plans, including the accession to the Eurasian Union.
political analyst Aghasi Yenokyan
Director of the Armenian Center for Political and International Studies, Aghasi Yenokyan, said that initially, when the issue of Armenian’s accession to the Customs Union was discussed, even at that time, the Karabakh issue became Armenia’s membership precondition to the Customs Union. Afterwards, Mr. Yenokyan continued, “It was so before the Sochi meeting. And the danger is that in this case Russia wants to move the issue to its discussion domain, to de-internationalize, to return from the OSCE MG format to Russian format, and accordingly, resolve the problems. In this event, only Russia’s interested would count. Hence, the Sochi meeting was for Putin to declare that he is the mediator of the Karabakh issue.”
Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
